Jeff,
Would you please provide more details about these failures? You say:
"And not just any fail. I'm talking about catastrophic, oh-my-God-what-just-happened-to-all-my-data instant gigafail. It's not pretty."Does this mean no data readable on any sector of any of the failed SSDs? Or was it recoverable when attached to another machine (such as outlined in Christos' comment earlier)?
Cheers,

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